Best offer on record: Amplitude Free Plan (permanent free tier, not a trial). 7 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Live check of “Startup Scholarship (Early-Stage Startup Plan) — 1 year of Growth plan free”:Confirmed
Amplitude's Startup Scholarship (also called the Startup Plan) gives qualifying early-stage startups the full Growth plan free for 12 months, no credit card, which Amplitude values at $60,000 and caps at up to 100M events/month (200K MTU). Eligibility is fewer than 20 employees and less than $10M raised in funding; applicants create a free Amplitude account first and then apply from inside the workspace, with most approvals within hours. Year two is a 40% discount on an annual Plus plan, or the account can drop to the free 2M-events/month tier. As of 2026-10-22 the page lists no deadline or closing date and the apply links are live, so the offer remains open to new users.
Amplitude Free Plan (permanent free tier, not a trial) high confidence
2M events/month FREE FOREVER; 10,000 session replays/month with 1-month replay retention; 2,000 AI feedback records; 5,000 agent sessions/month; AI Agents & MCP included; Product Analytics + Agent Analytics; one-time cohort syncs; limited experiments/guides/surveys. Also: unlimited seats, up to 10 saved charts/org, 1 collaboration space, 1-year data access, no customer support. Explicitly 'No Credit Card required' and 'You can use Amplitude for free as long as it fits your needs' — no time limit.
Eligibility
Open to anyone (individuals/explorers and companies). No .edu requirement, no funding cap, no credit card, no stated region limit. Claims: sign up at amplitude.com (workspace), select Free plan at pricing page — self-serve, no application.
How to claim
1) Sign up for a free Amplitude account at amplitude.com/signup. 2) Integrate product/mobile/web SDK and start sending events. 3) That's it — 2M events/month accrue automatically with no card and no application.
Expiry
Never — '2M Events/month forever'. No renewal needed.
Gotchas
Hard cap at 2M events/month: overage is not billed, it forces a paid upgrade (data handling above cap is plan-gated, not metered free). 1-year data access only (Plus gives 2). No support. 10 saved charts and 1 collaboration space limit team use. Free tier is not a trial: it is a permanent tier, so 'trial credits' as such do not exist in the offer.
Plus plan 'Starts at $0' — first 2M events/month free on a paid plan high confidence
Plus 'Starts at $0': 'First 2M Events/month free', scales up to 70M events / 700K MTU. Beyond free-tier extras: custom events/formulas, 20 behavioral cohorts, alerts, heatmaps, 2-year data retention, unlimited saved charts, 3 collaboration spaces, online support, 2-year replay retention. 'Credit Card required. Estimate bill.'
Eligibility
Open to anyone; no application. A CARD IS REQUIRED even for the first 2M free events (this is the key difference from the Free plan). No .edu/funding/region conditions stated.
How to claim
1) At amplitude.com/pricing choose Plus. 2) Add a credit card (bill estimated — $0 while under 2M events/month). 3) You keep Plus features at no charge while usage stays under 2M events/month.
Expiry
Ongoing; free while usage <= 2M events/month. Monthly invoice can become nonzero automatically when events exceed 2M — usage-based sliding scale up to 70M events. Not a fixed trial; no stated end date.
Gotchas
TRAP: 'starts at $0' does NOT mean no card — a live card is on file and overage bills automatically. Trial-vs-free distinction: Free plan = cardless forever; Plus-$0 = card-on-file, metered above 2M. To stay free, downgrade to the Free plan (your data/dashboards are kept).
Startup Scholarship (Early-Stage Startup Plan) — 1 year of Growth plan free high confidence
Year 1: 100% off the FULL Growth plan — 'Every feature, unlimited teammates, no credit card'; advertised value '$60,000' including '100M events a month' (about 200K MTUs). Year 2: 40% off annual Plus plan. Marketing claims: 'Most startups are approved instantly' and '96% of startups who apply get in.'
Eligibility
Raised LESS THAN $10M in funding AND FEWER THAN 20 employees. No company-age cap stated on the page. No credit card required. No .edu requirement. No explicit region limit stated (application is in-app).
How to claim
1) Create an Amplitude account. 2) Submit the scholarship application FROM INSIDE YOUR WORKSPACE (in-app application link from the Scholarships/Startups page). 3) Approval is typically instant; onboarding support follows. Extension requests: email scholarship@amplitude.com.
Expiry
1-year grant, then converts to 40%-off Plus (not free). Amplitude sends a usage-based quote for year 2 sixty days before it ends. You may 'Drop to the free 2M-events/month plan and keep your data and dashboards. No penalty.' No automatic renewal of the free year.
Gotchas
Year 2 is discounted, not free — budget it. Losing Growth features at conversion unless you pay; downgrading to Free forfeits Growth feature set (but keeps data). Funding cap is 'raised < $10M' — total raised, so check current cap table before applying.
Tech for Black Founders Scholarship — Growth plan free in perpetuity while eligible high confidence
Free, unlimited access to the Growth plan (the Startups page also phrases it as the 'full Startup Plan'): advanced analytics, experimentation, governance, dedicated onboarding; coverage up to 500K Monthly Tracked Users; 'for as long as you are eligible' / 'in perpetuity as long as you continue to meet the criteria.' Offered jointly with Braze.
Eligibility
US-HEADQUARTERED (explicit region limit); raised LESS THAN $30M in venture capital; FEWER THAN 150 employees; led by one or more Black founders. Early-stage ventures only. Founders must apply personally; no application fee; no credit card stated.
How to claim
1) Go to amplitude.com/tech-for-black-founders. 2) Complete the application form (founder applies personally, 'in-app' link available from the Startups page). 3) 'Our team will be in touch to get you started' — human review, not instant approval.
Expiry
No fixed end date; runs 'in perpetuity' while all criteria keep holding. Exits: exceed $30M raised, exceed 150 employees, founder-ownership change, or leave US base — free tier stops applying (terms for post-eligibility billing not stated on page).
Gotchas
Identity criteria ('led by one or more Black founders') disqualify many startups — check founder composition, not just company demographics. 500K MTU cap on the free grant; above that, pricing. 'Unlimited' refers to the Growth plan feature set, not event volume.
Venture Partner Program (VC/accelerator channel into the free Startup Plan) medium confidence
VCs and accelerator programs that 'invest in or run a program for startups' can partner so they 'give every company you back the Startup Plan free, plus partner-only perks.' For a startup, this is an alternative route to the same 1-year-free Growth plan as the Startup Scholarship. General partner-referral deals also add 'additional discounts' beyond the standard Startup Plan.
Eligibility
The VENTURE FIRM is the applicant (firm must invest in or run a program for startups). Startup recipients are those backed by/within that partner firm's portfolio; standard Startup Plan criteria (<$10M raised, <20 employees) presumably apply. No .edu requirement; no credit card stated; no region limit stated.
How to claim
1) VC/accelerator applies at /venture-partner on Amplitude's Startups page. 2) Partner gets a mechanism to grant the free Startup Plan to its portfolio companies ('partner-only perks' for the firm). 3) A startup in the portfolio claims through the referring partner.
Expiry
Not stated on the page; the underlying grant has the same 1-year-Growth-free / 40%-off-Plus structure as the standard Startup Scholarship.
Gotchas
Detail was read second-hand from the Startups page, not a dedicated program page — treat perk specifics as approximate. If you are the startup, your route is via your investors/accelerator, not direct.
Amplitude's Startups page states: 'We have a separate deal for YC folks - check out Bookface.' Bookface is a YC-ecosystem deals platform where YC startups claim partner offers; the deal is described as distinct from the standard < $10M / < 20-employee Startup Plan. The exact Amplitude offer terms (plan, event volume, duration) could NOT be verified: bookface.com (the domain I fetched) is an unrelated books marketplace, and the Amplitude deal page returned 404.
Eligibility
Y Combinator-affiliated startups (presumed in addition to/instead of standard criteria). No other details verifiable.
How to claim
Unverified path: YC startup goes to Bookface's Amplitude deal page and applies/claims in-app; YC network access required.
Expiry
Unknown — not verifiable from the sources I could fetch.
Gotchas
Treat all specifics as unverified. If you are YC-backed, locate Bookface's correct domain and the Amplitude deal card before relying on this; it may duplicate or extend the Startup Scholarship.
Education / student license: NOT FOUND low confidence
No Amplitude education or student program exists on its public site as of 2026-10-22. Verified: amplitude.com/education, /students, /solutions/education, /solutions/higher-education all 404; the Resources library (/resources/education) contains no student/edu offer; the pricing page states no education discount. Students/universities are covered only by the general Free plan (2M events/month, cardless) or Plus-$0 (card on file). No .edu email gate anywhere — because no edu offer exists to gate.
Eligibility
N/A — no dedicated program. Open access via the standard Free plan: no .edu email, no credit card, no region limit.
How to claim
Students claim the generic Free plan at amplitude.com/signup. For institutional or educational pricing, contact Amplitude sales (no public application path found).
Expiry
Free plan never expires; no license to renew.
Gotchas
Absence-of-evidence caveat: I confirmed the main public pages but could not exhaustively crawl every Amplitude URL (web-search budget was exhausted in this session). A limited/invitational edu program could exist off-site; treat 'none found' as 'none on public pages'.